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Tuesday, June 21st, 2022

Texas Republican Party Enshrines Anti-LGBTQ Hate in Extreme Right-Wing Party Platform

Author:     MADISON PAULY
Source:     Mother Jones
Publication Date:     JUNE 19, 2022
 Link: Texas Republican Party Enshrines Anti-LGBTQ Hate in Extreme Right-Wing Party Platform
Stephan:   Here is more on the burgeoning hate of Texas Republican citizens, and that is why I am publishing this piece. To understand what is happening in American one has to understand this hate is coming from ordinary people, who elect people like Greg Abbott, and Dan Patrick. We have a cancer of hate that has metastasized across the Red states. Hysterical fear of LGBTQ people, devotional belief in Trump, and his "Big Lie." The absolute conviction White people are being replaced (by who is never very clear). These people are already, in their minds, in a war. The problem is the rest of us don't seem to get that.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick poses for photos with supporters during the first day of the Republican Party of Texas convention. Credit: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle/AP

Thousands of the Texas Republican party faithful voted yesterday on a state GOP platform

✎ EditSign that calls being gay an “abnormal lifestyle choice,” declares the 2020 presidential election results illegitimate, and urges the repeal of the Voting Rights Act. 

The platform says that Texas students should be shown live ultrasounds as a way to deter against abortion and be taught that life begins at fertilization. At the same time, it demands that the state outlaw all sex and sexual health education—even abstinence-only sex ed. Meanwhile, it says that young people are the “most likely to need to defend themselves” and thus should have access to guns without waiting periods for “emergencies such as riots.”

And, doubling down on the anti-LGBTQ hate, the platform says the party “oppose[s] all efforts to validate transgender identity,” calling for bans on gender-affirming care for trans children and the passage of a “Don’t Say Gay” bill stronger than Florida’s. (The high-profile Florida bill, […]

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